| MGMT – Time to Pretend Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song juxtaposes two possible lifestyles to pursue, a conventional, more stable life "get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute" or a life of hedonistic abandon. The song portrays the latter as more worthwhile. The meaning unfolds in the second verse, when the voice refers back to the joys of childhood with fondness followed by the line "but there is really nothing, nothing we can do, love must be forgotten, life can always start anew." The line is not about acceptance and hope, although it may seem like it. It expresses the sentiment that the love and happiness of childhood can never be regained. And in context, that the idea that living carefully, according to plan will bring you happiness, is a fallacy, and if thrills and pleasure will make you feel good, they're the better option. However, a life of hedonism is only a way to stifle the consciousness of adulthood. The voice is aware that all the glory and bombast of living on the edge is just pretending to be larger than life, because in the end, even "rock gods" die pitifully. |
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| MGMT – 4th Dimensional Transition Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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DUDE! let me tell you there is nothing wrong with LSD. It is a very awesome experience. And Jaybird, LSD isn't like most drugs because it doesn't create your experience. The compound acts as a catalyst, beginning a series of neurophysiological events. The drug itself is out of your bloodstream within 20 minutes after you've eaten it. It's like a key that opens a door. Now even Ken Kesey, proliferat-er of the acid culture in the 1960s ended up saying you can only go through the door so many times before it's worthless. Eventually you have to move beyond the door. When I've done acid, it is not like getting fucked up, you lose awareness of even having taken the drug. You occupy only the moment, and yet all of time, in in that paradox you are all you can ever be, it is beyond being degraded or augmented by a substance physically, it is a transcendent experience. And what do you even mean "loser", once you are enlightened it's no more than a playground slur. If life is a game, it's not one worth playing, for if it so, it is merely a representation of sport within a tragic drama, where all the players perish regardless. The trophies are props that we can't take home. |
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| Radiohead – Inside My Head Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Capital G Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| BTW folks, the Christian God's name is not God....it's Yaweh or Jehova, and nobody's supposed to say the real name of god and that's why they are supposed to just call him "God". If God was signing his name it would probably start with a Y of J. And it just might be all capitals. LOL | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Capital G Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| My bf also thinks this song is about the government or Bush. But I disagree. Although the first verse is definately about the government, the second verse seems to be a more general persepective of the ruling elite. In fact the subject of the song, "I" "pushed a button and elected him to office." is obviously not the president himself. The government isn't a god to the upper echelon, they are inextricably part of it and it is the vessel of their will. What they worship is themselves, but their doctrine of religion is GREED. And that is the god that they've traded in for. | |
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